parent and child

Steve and Ginny are frustrated because their father ignores her talent as a tennis player while pushing him harder and harder to win at the sport.

Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.

Describes seven principles for creating and sustaining strong families, discussing how to develop a family mission statement, the importance of putting family first, ways to develop family unity, and other topics, and includes stories from the author and other families who have tried to apply these principles in their own lives.

Discusses the behavior and development unique to four-year-old girls and boys and offers practical advice for parents on how to deal with children this age.

Provides guidance for parents of six-year-olds, explaining the six-year-old child's psychology and addressing such topics as the relationship with the mother, beginning first grade, competitiveness with siblings and friends, and lying, and includes lists of recommended books and toys.

As he waits at home for his parents to return, a young boy ponders his father's remark "Things are going to change around here" and begins to imagine all kinds of changes in the world around him.

Two young men who have been friends since they were teenagers find a solidity and solidarity together in New York and embark on a project of creating a new kind of family.

Thirteen-year-old Kim learns the truth about her father and her mother's homeland after visiting South Africa, where she meets relatives and other children her age and witnesses the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings.

Jude is adopted by diehard hippies and raised in a small Vermont town and spends his youth smoking marijuana with his best friend Teddy, but after Teddy dies of an overdose, Jude is sent to live with his pot-dealing father in New York City, where Jude discovers the underground culture of straight edge and aspires to adopt the clean, militant lifestyle to honor Teddy's memory.

Offers children, teens, and adults with one or more gay, bisexual, or transgender parents advice on how they can deal with the challenges they might face, build healthy relationships with their parents, address discrimination, build a strong sense of self-esteem, and reduce the isolation and shame they might feel.